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This is Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello. Your minute begins now.

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Hundreds have died of heat exhaustion in the U.K.this summer.

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Pavement buckled across the eastern and central U.S. where a heat wave is broiling 21 states.

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Australia set new record high temperatures in their most recent summer.

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Anyone born after February 1985 has never lived through a month that was cooler than the 20th century's global average.

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All that heat means higher demand for air conditioning, a technology that turned 111 this week.

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AC ranges from a luxury to a necessity to a literal life-saver:

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a recent study by American economists showed heat-related deaths in the U.S.dropped from roughly 3,600 per year to just 600 around 1960.

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That's when AC became widespread in homes and offices.

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Of course, AC eats a lot of energy.

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Cooling accounts for fully 40 percent of the electricity demand of a typical U.S.building.

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Which means our coolness relies on fossil fuel burning that ups CO2 pollution and warms the planet.

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To compound the problem, the liquids used for all this comfort,

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first chlorofluorocarbons and now hydrofluorocarbons are super-strength greenhouse gases.

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As AC use spreads, cooling technology must become more environmentally-friendly and energy efficient.

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Otherwise, there'll be no place to hide from the heat.

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Your minute is up, for Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello.

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